Models for Tomorrow: Cologne, the European Kunsthalle’s first exhibition, will be presented from 2 March to 28 April 2007. Twenty-one artists will show their designs for a new exhibition hall at both extraordinary and ordinary cultural sites in downtown Cologne. The sketches, planes, and models produced especially for this exhibition by international artists deal with two themes: the architecture for the new exhibition space and concepts for its possible use. Artists’ pragmatic approaches are shown alongside works with utopian potential.
 
During the phase of its foundation, the European Kunsthalle does not have its own exhibition space. For Models for Tomorrow: Cologne, the institution will use the urban space with its range of publicly accessible sites. For the exhibition, a ring-shaped parcours has been set up in downtown Cologne that invites the art audience to walk along its path. The exhibition venues offer various spatial concepts with varying opening times, represent commercial or public interests, and are highly popular or exist on the city’s periphery. They show that answers to the question regarding the future profile of the European Kunsthalle might already be there in one of the city’s resources: its spaces. Moving toward the end of this two-year founding stage, the European Kunsthalle will use this exhibition to direct special attention to its specific location and starting point.

Lawrence Weiner subway stop Dom/Hbf, access via main station, Mon–Sun 0:00 am – 12:00 pm
Pia Rønicke Hilton Cologne, Marzellenstrasse 13–17 , Mon–Sun 0:00 am – 12:00 pm
Vito Acconci Tele Café Köln – Am Dom, An den Dominikanern 3, Mon–Sun 9:00 am – 11:00 pm
Superflex Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden AG, Investment- und FinanzCenter An den Dominikanern 11–27, Mon, Thu 9:00 am – 6:00 pm, Tue, We 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Fri, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Luca Frei Chamber of Industry and Commerce Cologne, Unter Sachsenhausen 10–26, Mon–Fri 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sean Snyder Library of the historical 
archive of the archbichopric Cologne, Gereonstraße 16, Tue, Thu, Fri 9:00 am – 4:00
Haegue Yang Statthaus, Steinfelder Gasse 33, 24h visible through window, access Mon 4:30–6:30 pm
, Thu 2:00–4:00 pm
Michael Beutler square in front of Vic Cocktailbar, Friesenstraße 16, Mon–Sun 0:00 am – 12:00 pm
Erik van Lieshout Sportlounge Michael Janson, Im Klapperhof 33c, Mon, Thu 12:00 am – 3:00 pm, Fri 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, So 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Tue Greenfort Christian Science Church Cologne, Albertusstraße 45a, Mon, Wed 4:00 – 7:00 pm, Tue, Thu 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Alex Morrison bookstore Walther König, Ehrenstraße 4, Mon–Fri 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, Sat 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
International Festival Neumarkt-Galerie, Neumarkt 2, Mon–Thu, Sat 7:00 am – 9:00 pm, Fri 7:00 am – 10:00 pm
Jesko Fezer & Axel John Wieder Central Library Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Hof 1, Tue, Thu 10:00 am – 8:00 pm, Wed, Fri    10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Sat 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Bik van der Pol Aral gas station, Cäcilienstraße 32, Mon–Sun 0:00 am – 12:00 pm
Silke Schatz Jesuit Church Sankt Peter, Jabachstraße 1, Tue–Sat 11:00 am –5:00 pm, Sun 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Tobias Rehberger Galeria Kaufhof, Dinea Restaurant, Hohe Straße 41–53, Mon–Thu 9:30 am – 8:00 pm, Fri–Sat 9:30 am – 9:00 pm
Andreas Fogarasi Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Obenmarspforten, Tue 10:00 am – 8:00 pm, Wed–Fri     10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Sat–Sun    11:00 am – 6:00 pm 
Olaf Nicolai St. Kolumba, Kolumbastraße 2–4, Mon–Sun 8:00 am – 7:30 pm
Liam Gillick City of Cologne, Customer’s Centre Laurenzplatz 1–3, Mon–Fri 7:00 am–7:00 pm, first Saturday of the month 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
An Te Liu Power Boxes RheinEnergie
, 20–Unter Goldschmied / Kleine Budengasse, 21–Am Hof
Mon–Sun 0:00 am – 12:00 pm
Karl Holmqvist Deutsche Bank self service centre Köln Am Dom, Bahnhofsvorplatz 1/Trankgasse, Mon–Sun 6:30 am – 11:00 pm

Curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Vanessa Joan Mueller, Julia Hoener
Spatial concept by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen, Philipp Misselwitz, Matthias Görlich (Spaces of Production)

2 March to 28 April 2007, Opening, 1 March 2007, 6 pm, Galeria Kaufhof, Hohe Strasse 41-53, Cologne

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